Introduction: This
is the fifth of seven esoteric stanzas transmitted by Alice A. Bailey
concerning the respective seven paths leading
to the way
of higher evolution, which is chosen by the master who undergoes
high spiritual initiation into more advanced stages of evolution.

STANZA
CXLVII
(From Archive 49)

PATH
V. The Ray Path.

The Adjuster holds the balances, and the scales are duly set. The energies
converge, and shake them out of equilibrium. They descend sometimes upon
the right hand side and sometimes upon the left.

The Energies are five in number and their major hue is gold.

* * *

Three great Words are
spoken by the Adjuster, and each Word is heard by those whose ears have
been deaf for seven cycles and whose lips have been sealed for nigh upon
fourteen rounded terms.

The first
Word contains the value numerical of the synthetic indigo. It reverberates
forth. The scales descend. He who hath ears to hear it, mounteth
the scales and addeth to that Word another sound. None have heard it
save he who hath stood before the Prince of Doom, and hath seen darkness
descend
upon the fivefold sons of flesh.

This dual
Word buildeth a wall which surroundeth the Son of Man whose lips are
dumb. It holdeth Him secure until the Word is spoken which will unseal
the fount of speech.

This silence
lasteth for seven times forty-nine years and each year for a day.

When the
Silent One within the wall seeth the Ray approach, when He changeth
the key of the earlier spoken Word, the disruption of the wall
is seen and a door openeth before Him.

* * *

The second Word holds
hid the number of the sacred blue. As it reverberates, the scales ascend,
and the man who seeketh to mount within them seeth the moment pass and
knoweth not what to do.

He struggleth
for speech and raiseth His right hand in supplication to the great Adjuster.
From the sacred halls of the City of the White Island
there issueth a messenger who speaketh to Him the following mystic words:

"As the power enters by that which is uppermost, and as it issues from the
lotus within the head of Him who hath held His peace, utter this WORD ... and
look within."

He who hath
held His speech breaks then the silence. He utters the four deep sounds
which cause the scale again to drop within His reach. Another door is
seen; it opens wide and thus the WAY is trodden.

* * *

The third Word holds securely sealed the key to the outer blue. It contains
the order for inversion, and only those can hear that Word whose ears have
been closed for eleven aeons. It is never heard within the realms of pain.
Few therefore hear it, and those few elude the scales, escape the fiery
eye of the great Adjuster and in Their very blindness find the Path which
lieth upon the further side of the scales.

* * *

These Words of high direction issue from that which lieth upon the ...
of the directing Life which holdeth our Lord of Life upon His Path.